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''Rhythm of Structure'' is a multimedia interdisciplinary project founded in 2003. It features a series of exhibitions, performances, and academic projects that explore the interconnecting structures and process of
mathematics and art Mathematics and art are related in a variety of ways. Mathematics has itself been described as an art motivated by beauty. Mathematics can be discerned in arts such as music, dance, painting, architecture, sculpture, and textiles. This artic ...
, and language, as way to advance a movement of mathematical expression across the arts, across creative collaborative communities celebrating the rhythm and patterns of both ideas of the mind and the physical reality of nature.


Introduction

''Rhythm of Structure'', as an expanding series of art exhibitions, performances, videos/films and publications created and curated by multimedia mathematical artist and writer John Sims, explores and celebrates the intersecting
structure A structure is an arrangement and organization of interrelated elements in a material object or system, or the object or system so organized. Material structures include man-made objects such as buildings and machines and natural objects such as ...
s of mathematics, art, community, and nature. Sims also created ''Recoloration Proclamation'' featuring the installation,
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(2004). From his catalog essay from the ''Rhythm of Structure: Mathematics, Art and Poetic exhibition'', Sims sets the curatorial theme where he writes: "Mathematics, as a parameter of human consciousness in an indispensable conceptual technology, essential is seeing beyond the retinal and knowing beyond the intuitive. The language and process of mathematics, as elements of, foundation for art, inform an analytic expressive condition that inspires a visual reckoning for a convergence: from the illustrative to the metaphysical to the poetic. And in the dialectic of visual art call and text performative response, there is an inter-dimensional conversation where the twisting structures of language, vision and human ways give birth to the spiritual lattice of a social geometry, a community constructivism -- a place of connections, where emotional calculations meet spirited abstraction." First premiering at the Fire Patrol No.5 Gallery in 2003, with the show ''Rhythm of Structure: MathArt'' in
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. This interdisciplinary project has featured numerous exhibitions around the country collaborating with many notable artists, writers, and musicians including:
Sol LeWitt Solomon "Sol" LeWitt (September 9, 1928 – April 8, 2007) was an American artist linked to various movements, including conceptual art and minimalism. LeWitt came to fame in the late 1960s with his wall drawings and "structures" (a term he pref ...
,
Adrian Piper Adrian Margaret Smith Piper (born September 20, 1948) is an American conceptual artist and Kantian philosopher. Her work addresses how and why those involved in more than one discipline may experience professional ostracism, otherness, racial ...
,
Dorothea Rockburne Dorothea Rockburne DFA (born c. 1932) is an abstract painter, drawing inspiration primarily from her deep interest in mathematics and astronomy. Her work is geometric and abstract, seemingly simple but very precise to reflect the mathematical co ...
, Al Loving, Joe Overstreet,
Howardena Pindell Howardena Pindell (born April 14, 1943) is an American artist, curator, and educator. She is known as a painter and mixed media artist, her work explores texture, color, structures, and the process of making art; it is often political, addressing ...
,
Helaman Ferguson Helaman Rolfe Pratt Ferguson (born 1940 in Salt Lake City, Utah) is an American sculptor and a digital artist, specifically an algorist. He is also well known for his development of the PSLQ algorithm, an integer relation detection algorithm. E ...
, John Hiigli, Vandorn Hinnant, Karen Finley,
Dread Scott Scott Tyler (born 1965), known professionally as Dread Scott, is an American artist whose works, often participatory in nature, focus on the experience of African Americans in the contemporary United States. His first major work, ''What Is the P ...
, Paul D. Miller,
Bob Holman Bob Holman is an American poet and poetry activist, most closely identified with the oral tradition, the spoken word, and poetry slam. As a promoter of poetry in many media, Holman has spent the last four decades working variously as an author ...
, Kate Rushin, Roman Verostko, Joan Waltemath,
Tara Betts Tara Betts is the author of three full-length poetry collections: ''Refuse to Disappear,'' which was published in June 2022 with The Word Works, ''Break the Habit'', which was published in October 2016 with Trio House Press, and her debut collect ...
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Brent Collins Brent Collins (October 31, 1941 – January 6, 1988) was an American actor who played the role of Mr. Big in the daytime soap opera ''As the World Turns'' from 1982 to 1983, and Wallingford on '' Another World'', from 1984 until his death. O ...
, Mike Field, Kazmier Maslanka, Ken Hiratsuka, Yael Acher Moriano,
Richard Kostelanetz Richard Cory Kostelanetz (born May 14, 1940) is an American artist, author, and critic. Birth and Education Kostelanetz was born to Boris Kostelanetz and Ethel Cory and is the nephew of the conductor Andre Kostelanetz. He has a B.A. (1962) from ...
, Kristin Prevallet, John Sims, and former U.S. Poet Laureate
Mark Strand Mark Strand (April 11, 1934 – November 29, 2014) was a Canadian-born American poet, essayist and translator. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1990 and received the Wallace Stevens Award in 2004 ...
. In addition to the exhibitions, another major aim of ''Rhythm of Structure'' is the building of an interdisciplinary creative community around the intersection of mathematics and all forms of art, as it might inspire new art, innovation art and mathematics education, and increased respect and understanding of the
rhythm Rhythm (from Greek , ''rhythmos'', "any regular recurring motion, symmetry") generally means a " movement marked by the regulated succession of strong and weak elements, or of opposite or different conditions". This general meaning of regular recu ...
and structure of nature itself. Such community experiences are created through call and response performances, social media and special video music projects such as The Rhythm of Structure and The Pi Day Anthem featuring John Sims and Vi Hart .


Background

Rhythm of Structure has its beginnings in Sims’ work as one of the international curators for the exhibition ''Science in the Arts - Art in the Sciences'', a citywide exhibition, in conjunction with the UNESCO-ICSU World Conference of Science,
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in 1999. This led to the exhibition, ''MathArt/ArtMath'', curated by John Sims (then Coordinator of Mathematics at Ringling) and Kevin Dean, at the Selby Gallery
Ringling College of Art and Design Ringling College of Art and Design (RCAD) is a private art and design school in Sarasota, Florida. It was founded by Ludd M. Spivey as an art school in 1931 as a remote branch of Southern College but separated by 1933. History The origins of ...
in 2002. This show presented a general survey of art inspired and framed by mathematics ideas of mostly American
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and
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artists, as well as mathematicians working in the area of visual mathematics. The theme of the show was designed to examine the complexity and diversity of the meaning of mathematical art. The ''MathArt/ArtMath'' exhibition featured:
Josef Albers Josef Albers (; ; March 19, 1888March 25, 1976) was a German-born artist and educator. The first living artist to be given a solo show at MoMA and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, he taught at the Bauhaus and Black Mountain College ...
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Thomas Banchoff Thomas Francis Banchoff (born April 7, 1938) is an American mathematician specializing in geometry. He is a professor at Brown University, where he has taught since 1967. He is known for his research in differential geometry in three and four dim ...
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Richard Anuszkiewicz Richard Joseph Anuszkiewicz (; May 23, 1930 – May 19, 2020) was an American painter, printmaker, and sculptor. Life and work Anuszkiewicz was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, the son of Victoria (Jankowski) and Adam Anuszkiewicz, who worked in a pap ...
, Manuelo Baez,
Jhane Barnes Jhane Barnes is an American designer of clothing, textiles, eyeglasses, carpets and furniture, and the owner of the ''Jhane Barnes'' fashion design company. Barnes is known for incorporating complex, mathematical patterns into her clothing desig ...
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Max Bill Max Bill (22 December 1908 – 9 December 1994) was a Swiss architect, artist, painter, typeface designer, industrial designer and graphic designer. Early life and education Bill was born in Winterthur. After an apprenticeship as a silversmith ...
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Mel Bochner Mel Bochner (born 1940) is an American conceptual artist. Bochner received his BFA in 1962 and honorary Doctor of Fine Arts in 2005 from the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University. He lives in New York City. Life Bochner was born in Pittsb ...
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Brent Collins Brent Collins (October 31, 1941 – January 6, 1988) was an American actor who played the role of Mr. Big in the daytime soap opera ''As the World Turns'' from 1982 to 1983, and Wallingford on '' Another World'', from 1984 until his death. O ...
, David Davis, George Deem,
Agnes Denes Agnes Denes (Dénes Ágnes; born 1931 in Budapest) is a Hungarian-born American conceptual artist based in New York. She is known for works in a wide range of media—from poetry and philosophical writings to extremely detailed drawings, sculptu ...
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M.C. Escher Maurits Cornelis Escher (; 17 June 1898 – 27 March 1972) was a Dutch graphic artist who made Mathematics and art, mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithography, lithographs, and mezzotints. Despite wide popular interest, Escher was for ...
, Fred Eversley, Shannon Fagan,
Helaman Ferguson Helaman Rolfe Pratt Ferguson (born 1940 in Salt Lake City, Utah) is an American sculptor and a digital artist, specifically an algorist. He is also well known for his development of the PSLQ algorithm, an integer relation detection algorithm. E ...
, Mike Field, Charles Gaines, Paulus Gerdes,
Bathsheba Grossman Bathsheba Grossman (born 1966) is an American artist who creates sculptures using computer-aided design and three-dimensional modeling, with metal printing technology to produce sculpture in bronze and stainless steel. Her bronze sculptures a ...
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Al Held Al Held (October 12, 1928 – July 27, 2005) was an American Abstract expressionist painter. He was particularly well known for his large scale Hard-edge paintings. As an artist, multiple stylistic changes occurred throughout his career, h ...
, John Hiigli, Slavik Jablan, Alfred Jensen, Andrienne Klein,
Sol LeWitt Solomon "Sol" LeWitt (September 9, 1928 – April 8, 2007) was an American artist linked to various movements, including conceptual art and minimalism. LeWitt came to fame in the late 1960s with his wall drawings and "structures" (a term he pref ...
, Arthur Lee Loeb, Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky, Marlena Novak, Joe Overstreet,
Howardena Pindell Howardena Pindell (born April 14, 1943) is an American artist, curator, and educator. She is known as a painter and mixed media artist, her work explores texture, color, structures, and the process of making art; it is often political, addressing ...
, Richard Purdy,
Tony Robbin Tony Robbin (born November 24, 1943, in Washington, DC) is an American artist and author, who works with painting, sculpture and computer visualizations. He is considered part of the Pattern and Decoration (P&D) art movement. Work Robbin ha ...
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Dorothea Rockburne Dorothea Rockburne DFA (born c. 1932) is an abstract painter, drawing inspiration primarily from her deep interest in mathematics and astronomy. Her work is geometric and abstract, seemingly simple but very precise to reflect the mathematical co ...
, Frank Rothkamm, Irene Rousseau, Carlo Sequin, John Sims, John Sullivan,
Jack Tworkov Jack Tworkov (15 August 1900 – 4 September 1982) was an American abstract expressionist painter. Biography Yakov Tworkovsky, more commonly known as Jack Tworkov, was born in Biała Podlaska on the border between Poland and the Russian Empi ...
, Roman Verostko, and John Waltemath. There was a brochure and video produced for this exhibition. After the ''MathArt/ArtMath'' exhibition, Sims began working on a text about the nature of mathematical art leading to his chapter, ''Trees, Roots and a Brain: A Metaphorical Foundation for Mathematical Art'', in the book ''Mathematics and Culture II: Visual Perfection: Mathematics and Creativity''. In his chapter, he presents his ideas on the interconnection of mathematics, art and nature, setting the stage for his next group of exhibitions called ''Rhythm of Structure''.


Exhibitions


''Rhythm of Structure:'' MathArt in Harlem (2003)

''MathArt in Harlem'', January 2003, Fire Patrol #5 Gallery in
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, New York, featured artists Audrey Bennet, Brent Collins,
Agnes Denes Agnes Denes (Dénes Ágnes; born 1931 in Budapest) is a Hungarian-born American conceptual artist based in New York. She is known for works in a wide range of media—from poetry and philosophical writings to extremely detailed drawings, sculptu ...
,
Helaman Ferguson Helaman Rolfe Pratt Ferguson (born 1940 in Salt Lake City, Utah) is an American sculptor and a digital artist, specifically an algorist. He is also well known for his development of the PSLQ algorithm, an integer relation detection algorithm. E ...
, Charles Gaines,
Bathsheba Grossman Bathsheba Grossman (born 1966) is an American artist who creates sculptures using computer-aided design and three-dimensional modeling, with metal printing technology to produce sculpture in bronze and stainless steel. Her bronze sculptures a ...
, John Hiigli, Ken Hiratsuka, Adrienne Klein,
Sol LeWitt Solomon "Sol" LeWitt (September 9, 1928 – April 8, 2007) was an American artist linked to various movements, including conceptual art and minimalism. LeWitt came to fame in the late 1960s with his wall drawings and "structures" (a term he pref ...
, John Little, Al Loving, Marlena Novak, Joe Overstreet,
Howardena Pindell Howardena Pindell (born April 14, 1943) is an American artist, curator, and educator. She is known as a painter and mixed media artist, her work explores texture, color, structures, and the process of making art; it is often political, addressing ...
, John Powell,
Tony Robbin Tony Robbin (born November 24, 1943, in Washington, DC) is an American artist and author, who works with painting, sculpture and computer visualizations. He is considered part of the Pattern and Decoration (P&D) art movement. Work Robbin ha ...
, Irene Rousseau, Clifford Singer, John Sims, and Joan Waltemath.


''Rhythm of Structure:'' The Mathematical Aesthetic (2004)

''The Mathematical Aesthetic'', 2004, Wilmer Jennings Gallery in
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, New York, included artists: Joe Overstreet, John Biggers, Brent Collins, Lisa Corinne Davis, Fred Eversley, Terri Foster, Charles Gaines, Simon Gouverneur, James Little, Al Loving, Vandorn Hinnant, Scott Johnson,
Howardena Pindell Howardena Pindell (born April 14, 1943) is an American artist, curator, and educator. She is known as a painter and mixed media artist, her work explores texture, color, structures, and the process of making art; it is often political, addressing ...
, John Sims, Kevin Sipp,
Al Smith Alfred Emanuel Smith (December 30, 1873 – October 4, 1944) was an American politician who served four terms as Governor of New York and was the Democratic Party's candidate for president in 1928. The son of an Irish-American mother and a C ...
, Joyce Wellman, and
Jack White John Anthony White (; born July 9, 1975), commonly known as Jack White, is an American musician, best known as the lead singer and guitarist of the duo the White Stripes. White has enjoyed consistent critical and popular success and is widely c ...
.


''Rhythm of Structure:'' Beyond the Mathematics (2007)

In association with the ''Knotting Mathematics and Art: Conference in Low Dimensional Topology and Mathematical Art'' at
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in November 2007, there were three exhibitions of ''Rhythm of Structure: Beyond the Mathematics'', curated by John Sims, which were hosted at the Centre Gallery, Museum of Science & Industry in
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, and the Oliver Gallery, respectively. Featured artists for this exhibition included: Davide Cervone, Brent Collins, Alex Feingold,
Helaman Ferguson Helaman Rolfe Pratt Ferguson (born 1940 in Salt Lake City, Utah) is an American sculptor and a digital artist, specifically an algorist. He is also well known for his development of the PSLQ algorithm, an integer relation detection algorithm. E ...
, Mike Field, Nat Friedman,
Chaim Goodman-Strauss Chaim Goodman-Strauss (born June 22, 1967 in Austin TX) is an American mathematician who works in convex geometry, especially aperiodic tiling. He is on the faculty of the University of Arkansas and is a co-author with John H. Conway of ''The Sym ...
, Gary Greenfield,
Bathsheba Grossman Bathsheba Grossman (born 1966) is an American artist who creates sculptures using computer-aided design and three-dimensional modeling, with metal printing technology to produce sculpture in bronze and stainless steel. Her bronze sculptures a ...
,
George W. Hart George William Hart (born 1955) is an American sculptor and geometer. Before retiring, he was an associate professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University in New York City and then an interdepartmental research professor at Stony B ...
, Slavik Jablan,
Sol LeWitt Solomon "Sol" LeWitt (September 9, 1928 – April 8, 2007) was an American artist linked to various movements, including conceptual art and minimalism. LeWitt came to fame in the late 1960s with his wall drawings and "structures" (a term he pref ...
, Charles O. Perry,
Tony Robbin Tony Robbin (born November 24, 1943, in Washington, DC) is an American artist and author, who works with painting, sculpture and computer visualizations. He is considered part of the Pattern and Decoration (P&D) art movement. Work Robbin ha ...
, Radmilla Sazdanovic, John Sims, Carlo Sequin, and Peter Swedenborg. A review of the conference and exhibition was also published in the ''Journal of Mathematics and the Arts''.


''Rhythm of Structure:'' Mathematics, Art and Poetic Reflection at Bowery Poetry Club (2009-10)

''Mathematics, Art and Poetic Reflection'', 2009-2010, premiered at the
Bowery Poetry Club The Bowery Poetry Club is a New York City poetry performance space founded by Bob Holman in 2002.Aptowicz, Cristin O'Keefe. (2008). ''Words in Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam.'' Chapter 26: What the ...
in
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, New York. This exhibition consisted of nine shows, each show a month long typically featuring two artists or a small group. Featured poets or performers were invited to respond to the works with a performance at the closing of the show. The entire exhibition featured over 70 artists and performers, plus an art class from
Brooklyn Academy of Science and the Environment Brooklyn Academy of Science and the Environment, or BASE, is one of four public high schools in the Prospect Heights Educational Campus (formerly Prospect Heights High School). BASE was established in 2003: a partnership among the Prospect Park ...
, and students of the Rhythm of Structure Class at NYU
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. The complete exhibition led to a published catalog and documentary film, which screened at the
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in 2012. The entire exhibition then traveled as a summary show to
Ringling College of Art and Design Ringling College of Art and Design (RCAD) is a private art and design school in Sarasota, Florida. It was founded by Ludd M. Spivey as an art school in 1931 as a remote branch of Southern College but separated by 1933. History The origins of ...
, as well as
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in 2011. ''Squares and Circles'' featuring John Hiigli and Vandorn Hinnant This inaugural show featured the duet paintings: ''Chrome 163'' by John Hiigli, and ''What Euclid intended for us to know'' by Vandorn Hinnant. Responding poems/poets: ''Circular Vibration'' by Christina Schmitt, ''The Digital Organic'' by Alan Gilbert, ''The Square Transformed'' by Christina Schmitt, and ''Poemedy Squircular'' (Excerpt) by Summer Hill Seven. ''Lines and Curves'' featuring Paulus Gerdes/John Sims and Ken Hiratsuka This show featured rope installation and stone carving: ''A Roped Mirrored Curve'' by Paulus Gerdes/John Sims, ''Chained Universe'' by Ken Hiratsuka. Responding poems/poets: ''Quadrants'' by Kristin Prevallet, ''Images of Devonian Age'' by Pooh Kaye, and ''The Curvature of Green'' by Shanxing Wang. ''The Cartesian MathArt Hive'' featuring The Hive Artists ''The Cartesian MathArt Hive'' created by John Sims based on the rotations of his piece ''SquareRoots of a Tree'' in a collaboration of the following works: ''Haloed Angel Study: Spark'' by
Dorothea Rockburne Dorothea Rockburne DFA (born c. 1932) is an abstract painter, drawing inspiration primarily from her deep interest in mathematics and astronomy. Her work is geometric and abstract, seemingly simple but very precise to reflect the mathematical co ...
, ''Eseau on Globe Crossing'' by Joyce Wellman, ''Chrome 151: 3 Spheres'' by John Hiigli , ''Isometric Systems in Isotropic Space-Map Projection: The Cube'' by
Agnes Denes Agnes Denes (Dénes Ágnes; born 1931 in Budapest) is a Hungarian-born American conceptual artist based in New York. She is known for works in a wide range of media—from poetry and philosophical writings to extremely detailed drawings, sculptu ...
, ''Square Roots of a Tree'' by John Sims, ''Squaring the Circle: Heaven in Earth'' by Pam Tuczyn, ''Drawing 13'' by Roman Verostko, ''Poincare-double lace'' by Carlo Sequin, ''Iterations'' by Mike Field, ''Enlightened Vision #10'' by Christina Schmitt, ''Kelien-Fountain'' by Davide Cevone, ''Root Three Fractal SpiralGram'' by Vandorn Hinnant, ''Zero'' by Kevin Dean, ''Tree Root of a Fractal'' by John Sims, ''Spheres'' by Susan Happersett, ''Fish'' by Ken Hiratsuka, ''Drawn with a Compass, Chopstick and a Pen'' by
Howardena Pindell Howardena Pindell (born April 14, 1943) is an American artist, curator, and educator. She is known as a painter and mixed media artist, her work explores texture, color, structures, and the process of making art; it is often political, addressing ...
, ''Our Days are Numbered!'' by Robert Fitterman, ''Mapping of the Universe'' by Faybiene Miranda, ''Is Numerology Math'' by Chris Funkhouser, ''Where Come Together'' by Chris Funkhouser, ''Alphabetical Mutability'' by Tatiana Bonch, and ''One'' by Marcella Durand. ''The Cartesian MathArt Hive'' was also featured in a ''Journal of Mathematics and Arts'' paper. ''You Lie'' featuring Paul D. Miller and Dread Scott This exhibition featured the digital works on paper, ''You Lie'' by Paul D. Miller and ''Poll Dance'' by
Dread Scott Scott Tyler (born 1965), known professionally as Dread Scott, is an American artist whose works, often participatory in nature, focus on the experience of African Americans in the contemporary United States. His first major work, ''What Is the P ...
. Responding Poems/Poets: ''Spam A Lot (Viagra for Joe Wilson)'' by LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, ''Survey'' by LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, ''Coolant System'' by Alan Gilbert, and ''Count Me In'' by Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai. ''The Square Root of Love'' featuring Karen Finley and John Sims This duet show featured: ''Many Moods of Love'' by Karen Finley and ''Square Root of Love'' by John Sims. Responding Poems/Poets:''The Square Root of Love: Calculating the HEART of Things'' by JoAnne Growney, and ''Learning To Be My Father's Son or 16 Things I Could Never Tell My Father'' by
Regie Cabico Regie Cabico is a Filipino American poet and spoken word artist. He has been featured on two seasons of ''Def Poetry Jam'' on HBO (produced by Russell Simmons) and has been called the Lady Gaga of spoken word. He is an "out and proud" gay man. ...
. John Sims' part of exhibition developed into a Valentine's Day wine-poetry-film project premiering in Paris in 2017. ''Selected Infinite Extensions Arbitrarily Constrained'' featuring Sol LeWitt and Adrian Piper ''Selected Infinite Extensions Arbitrarily Constrained'' featuring
Sol LeWitt Solomon "Sol" LeWitt (September 9, 1928 – April 8, 2007) was an American artist linked to various movements, including conceptual art and minimalism. LeWitt came to fame in the late 1960s with his wall drawings and "structures" (a term he pref ...
and
Adrian Piper Adrian Margaret Smith Piper (born September 20, 1948) is an American conceptual artist and Kantian philosopher. Her work addresses how and why those involved in more than one discipline may experience professional ostracism, otherness, racial ...
was a duet show that featured the wall installations: ''Drawing #163'' by
Sol LeWitt Solomon "Sol" LeWitt (September 9, 1928 – April 8, 2007) was an American artist linked to various movements, including conceptual art and minimalism. LeWitt came to fame in the late 1960s with his wall drawings and "structures" (a term he pref ...
, and ''Vanishing Point #1'' by
Adrian Piper Adrian Margaret Smith Piper (born September 20, 1948) is an American conceptual artist and Kantian philosopher. Her work addresses how and why those involved in more than one discipline may experience professional ostracism, otherness, racial ...
. Responding Poems/Poets: ''Sociedad Anonima'' by Mónica de la Torre, ''Two Poems Squared'' by
Bob Holman Bob Holman is an American poet and poetry activist, most closely identified with the oral tradition, the spoken word, and poetry slam. As a promoter of poetry in many media, Holman has spent the last four decades working variously as an author ...
, ''Dear Morning Light dear visiwind'' by
Bob Holman Bob Holman is an American poet and poetry activist, most closely identified with the oral tradition, the spoken word, and poetry slam. As a promoter of poetry in many media, Holman has spent the last four decades working variously as an author ...
, ''Terra Quad'' by Edwin Torres, ''MathArtPoem: A LeWitt/Piper Response'' by John Sims/Rhythm of Structure Class/NYU, ''For the Girl Who Was Asked to Write a Poem About Me and, as Usual, Wanted to Write a Poem About Her Heart Instead'' by Eboni Hogan, ''The Elevator'' by Mark Strand, and ''Empty'' by Jon Sands. ''Selected Infinite Extensions Arbitrarily Constrained'' was reviewed by ''
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Magazine''. ''(20, 21, 29): An Assignment'' featuring the Students of Brooklyn Academy of Science and Environment ''(20, 21, 29): An Assignment,'' a visualization of the
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(20, 21, 29) created by art students with teacher Jennifer Lemish at the
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. Responding Poems/Poets: ''21 Reasons Why I hate Math'' by Shappy Seasholtz, and ''29 Solutions For Writers, by People Who Know Better Than Me'' by
Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz ( ; born November 26, 1978) is an American nonfiction writer and poet. Life A native of Philadelphia, Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz graduated from Central High School of Philadelphia in 1996 and received a B.F.A. in Dramati ...
. ''Mathematical Graffiti'' featuring Fernando Mora, John Sims with Kyle Goen, Mark Turgeon, and the Bowery Poetry Club Patrons ''Mathematical Graffiti'' featured: Fernando Mora, John Sims with Kyle Goen, Mark Turgeon, and the Bowery Poetry Club Patrons. Poetic Responses: ''Mutually Inverse Operations: Mathematical Poetry on the Occasion of the Mathematical Graffiti Wall'' by Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino, ''Proportional Poems'' by Kaz Maslanka, ''Graffiti Mathemaku'' by
Bob Grumman Bob Grumman (February 2, 1941 – April 2, 2015) was an American mathematical poet and critic of what he called "otherstream" poetry. He was a columnist for ''Factsheet Five'' from 1987 to 1992, and wrote a regular column for ''Small Press Re ...
, ''33 Symmetry Axes x 40 Orthogonal Triples: or, Free Will, Revisited'' by
Stephanie Strickland Stephanie Strickland (born February 22, 1942) is a poet living in New York City. She has published ten volumes of print poetry and co-authored twelve digital poems. Her files and papers are being collected by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book And ...
, ''Who Counts, Counts'' by
Stephanie Strickland Stephanie Strickland (born February 22, 1942) is a poet living in New York City. She has published ten volumes of print poetry and co-authored twelve digital poems. Her files and papers are being collected by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book And ...
, and ''Notes on Numbers'' by
Richard Kostelanetz Richard Cory Kostelanetz (born May 14, 1940) is an American artist, author, and critic. Birth and Education Kostelanetz was born to Boris Kostelanetz and Ethel Cory and is the nephew of the conductor Andre Kostelanetz. He has a B.A. (1962) from ...
. Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino featured portions of this exhibition in his blog. ''The HyperQuilt'' featuring Helen Beamish, Elaine Ellison, Suzanne Gould, John Sims, Ella Toy, Diana Venters, and Paula Wynter ''The HyperQuilt'' featured: Helen Beamish, Elaine Ellison, Suzanne Gould, John Sims, Ella Toy, Diana Venters, and Paula Wynter. Responding Poems/Poets: ''The Language of Quilts'' by
Tara Betts Tara Betts is the author of three full-length poetry collections: ''Refuse to Disappear,'' which was published in June 2022 with The Word Works, ''Break the Habit'', which was published in October 2016 with Trio House Press, and her debut collect ...
, ''The Last Time'' by Adam Falkner and Jeanann Verlee, ''We Come From Farm People'' by Kate Rushin, ''The Math Poem: Along The Learning Curve'' by Kate Rushin. ''Rhythm of Structure:'' Bowery and Beyond (2011) The entire nine ''Rhythm of Structure'' shows at the Bowery Poetry Club were brought together as one united ''Rhythm of Structure: Bowery and Beyond'' exhibition at the Selby Gallery at Ringling College of Art and Design in February, 2011. After the Selby Gallery showing at Ringling, it was shown later that year at the
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, from May to November 2011. The '' Dayton City Paper'' reviewed the exhibition and featured an article in their local newspaper.


Publications

''Rhythm of Structure Mathematics, Art and Poetic Reflection: Bowery and Beyond - Exhibition Catalogue'' In 2011, the catalog ''Rhythm of Structure Mathematics, Art and Poetic Reflection: Bowery and Beyond'' was produced by Selby Gallery and
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Herndon Gallery at
Ringling College of Art and Design Ringling College of Art and Design (RCAD) is a private art and design school in Sarasota, Florida. It was founded by Ludd M. Spivey as an art school in 1931 as a remote branch of Southern College but separated by 1933. History The origins of ...
and John Sims, containing all 9 of the ''Mathematics, Art and Poetic Reflection'' exhibits. ''Sarasota Herald Tribune'' previewed and reviewed the exhibition catalog at Selby Gallery, and the film at the Sarasota Film Festival. ''Rhythm of Structure:'' MathArt in the African Diaspora - International Review of African American Art In 2004, John Sims and Juliette Harris co-edited a special issue, ''MathArt in the African Diaspora'', for the ''International Review of African American Art'' which featured artists: John Sims,
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, Juliette Harris, Ron Eglash, Brent Collins, Andrea Pollan,
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, and Paulus Gerdes.


NYU course

In the spring of 2010, in connection to the ''Rhythm of Structure: Mathematics, Art and Poetic Reflection'' at the Bowery Poetry Club, John Sims was invited to teach a course for the department of Art and Public Policy at
Tisch School of the Arts The New York University Tisch School of the Arts (commonly referred to as Tisch) is the performing, cinematic and media arts school of New York University. Founded on August 17, 1965, Tisch is a training ground for artists, scholars of the a ...
. The course, "Rhythm of Structure: Trees, Flags and Clock", examined the mechanisms/structures of developing John Sims' three large-scale interdisciplinary art projects (as case studies), which explored issues of social justice, community building, and the politics of grand scale works. With these multi-level projects-in-progress, which intersect the space of art with mathematics, visual politics, and social networking, the course investigated the various strategies and challenges in creating a system of objects-texts-sounds-works that employs the tools of social organizing, media, technology,
culture jamming Culture jamming (sometimes also guerrilla communication) is a form of protest used by many anti-consumerist social movements to disrupt or subvert media culture and its mainstream cultural institutions, including corporate advertising. It atte ...
, performance, poetry, and satire. The student final group project was a collective video-poetry response to the
Sol LeWitt Solomon "Sol" LeWitt (September 9, 1928 – April 8, 2007) was an American artist linked to various movements, including conceptual art and minimalism. LeWitt came to fame in the late 1960s with his wall drawings and "structures" (a term he pref ...
and
Adrian Piper Adrian Margaret Smith Piper (born September 20, 1948) is an American conceptual artist and Kantian philosopher. Her work addresses how and why those involved in more than one discipline may experience professional ostracism, otherness, racial ...
exhibition, ''Selected Infinite Extensions Arbitrarily Constrained'', which was up at that point at the ''Rhythm of Structure'' exhibition at the Bowery Poetry Club. The video and live student readings were also presented at the closing of the show.


Film

''Mathematics, Art and Poetic Reflection'' was made into a documentary, ''Rhythm of Structure: Bowery and Beyond'', and presented at
Sarasota Film Festival The Sarasota Film Festival is a film festival located in Sarasota, Florida and is held in April. Its mission is "to celebrate the art of filmmaking and the contribution of filmmakers by hosting an international film festival and developing year-lo ...
in 2012. The film was also previewed and reviewed by the ''Saratosa Herald Tribune''. In connection to the film screening, there was are dinner, art performance reception featuring John Sims and Karen Finley's Square of Love installation from the Rhythm of Structure exhibition at the Bowery Poetry Club. The dinner featured a special menu prepared by Chef Gene Marra inspired by roots and love. The performance program included Twinkle, the late Kenny Drew Jr., Thomas Carabasi, Eleonora Lvov, Nate Jacobs, Michael Mendez, Kyleelise Holmes, Greg Tate and Bahiyyah Maroon.


Reviews

There have been a number of reviews for ''Rhythm of Structure'': * A paper covering the ''Knotting Mathematics and Art: Conference in Low Dimensional Topology and Mathematical Art'' at
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in November 2007 appeared in the ''Journal of Mathematics and Arts''. * At the Bowery Poetry Club show, Sol LeWitt and Adrian Piper's exhibition with featured response by Mark Strand was review in ''Art in America'' by John Reed in March 2010. * ''The Cartesian MathArt Hive'' piece featured in the ''Rhythm of Structure: Mathematics, Art and Poetic Reflection'' (2009–10) exhibition was covered by a journal paper, April 2010, in the ''Journal of Mathematics and Arts''. * Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino featured an element of the ''Mathematics, Art and Poetic Reflection'' poetry presentation his blog in April 2010. * ''Sarasota Herald Tribune'' writer Marty Fugate previewed the Ringling College of Art and Design exhibition at Selby Gallery and ''Rhythm of Structure'' film which screened at the Sarasota Film Festival in April 2012. * The Antioch College showing of ''Rhythm of Structure'' was covered in April 2012 by the Jane A. Black for the '' Dayton City Paper''. * SQR Magazine reviewed ''The Square Root of Love'', featured in the ''Rhythm of Structure: Mathematics, Art and Poetic Reflection'' (2009–10) exhibition, at the Bowery Poetry Club in April 2012.


See also

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Journal of Mathematics and the Arts The ''Journal of Mathematics and the Arts'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that deals with relationship between mathematics and the arts. The journal was established in 2007 and is published by Taylor & Francis. The editor-in-chief ...
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The Bridges Organization The Bridges Organization is an organization that was founded in Kansas, United States, in 1998 with the goal of promoting interdisciplinary work in mathematics and art. The Bridges Conference is an annual conference on connections between art and ...


References


External links

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